Hi, On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:53:09AM -0500, Dennis Gilmore wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2009 05:02:41 am Axel Thimm wrote: > > AFAIK the build hosts are RHEL5 (or maybe F10 by now?). At any rate > > the rpm used in rawhide is quite different than the ones from the > > hosts, how has this been solved in the build hosts? Has the hosting OS > > upgraded its rpm to be compatible to all hosted chroots? Or is the rpm > > within the chroot used? > > > > I'm asking in a double context: First I'd like to understand if smart > > can properly handle chroots of rawhide/F11 on F10/RHEL5 hosts. Anders > > Björklund (in the Cc, please keep him there on replies) has put a > > great deal of effort to have smart working on F10 and F11, and a smart > > version for managing F11 and later chroots on F10 or earlier would be > > great. > > > > And second I'd like to know how to setup a build environment for F11 > > for getting some ATrpms packages out. > > > we are running a version of rpm 4.6.0 on rhel5. This is only so mock can > populate chroots with rpms with stronger hashes rhel5's rpm doesnt support. > All srpm creation now takes place in chroots so features of the target rpm are > always available. > > rpm in F-10 updates is compatible with the new rpm features. but rpm from F-9 > and RHEL4 and 5 can not handle the new rpm at all. you cannot make chroots on > them with rawhide rpms. > > > you could use koji on F-10/rawhide or F-9/RHEL5 by replacing the hosts rpm to > build your packages. Thanks for the explanation, Dennis. Can I get these tailored rpm rpms from somewhere? I just tried rebuilding rpm from rawhide on RHEL5 and the dependencies look endless. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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